Another one for Team Qatar!

Team Robo-Barista (with Dean Rashid Alammari) of Qatar University winning the 1st Prize to represent the State of Qatar at the 2015 Microsoft Imagine Cup (Innovation Category).

Team Robo-Barista

Our photo with US Ambassador to Qatar, Mrs Dana Smith, at the Microsoft HQ in Doha.

@Microsoft Campus in Redmond

Selfie with Bill Gates and gang

Good news: There's coffee! Very good news: We're in the news!

In the news @QU

Resistance is futile!

Coffee, anyone?

Paro at work

Paro (renamed as Snowflake) deployed at the Child Development Center, Rumailah Hospital.

Autism: Love needs no words

World Autism Awareness Day 2015 at Aspire, Doha.

World Autism Awareness Day 2015 at Qatar University.

@NASA!

As a kid, I used to build mock-ups of Saturn V. Here's the real one!

@Boeing

First time I've been to a production plant with more than $10 billion worth of "products" at one time.

@Georgia Tech

Guest lecture at GT, summer of 2015.

Mentor for Team Qatar

Qatar University represented Qatar at the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2014 Pan Arab competitions

Work or play?

The day after the award

What does your father do?

Occupation talk at Marie's preschool (with Paro).

Answer to the question: co-worker

SR Nathan, President of Singapore

Pres. Nathan's visit to the NUS Social Robotics Lab

You know him, of course :)

Just a photo op with Nick Vujicic at a hotel lobby in Singapore.

"I was there" awards 2014, Sydney

ICSR: We were there!

That was a fun conference!

International Conference on Social Robotics, Sydney, 2014. See you all in Paris for ICSR 2015!

Working mode

The general chair (Sam Ge) and the program chair at work (me) during ICSR 2012, Chengdu, China.

ICSR 2012 Program Chairs

with Mary Anne Williams (UTS) and Reid Simmons (CMU)

ICSR: "I was there" awards

Here's a fun conference award that I 'invented' for all our Social Robotics conferences. "I was there" award is for those who have attended past ICSR conferences. The award is a souvenir that best represents the host city.

Conference organizers

(L-R) Yeow Kee Tan, Haizhou Li, Sam Ge and me :)

Multi-cultural immersion

ICSR 2010, Singapore

Professor Bruno Siciliano's 2014 QU visit

Design Day - Fall 2014

Awards ceremonies for the best projects at the QU Mechanical Engineering Department (with the students and Prof Elsadig Mahdi, Head of Department).

CIS-RAM 2013

Presenting gifts to Professor Nitish Thakor (JHU/NUS), the conference key note speaker.

CIS-RAM 2013 post-conference

I was general co-chair of IEEE CIS-RAM 2013. Here's where we had our post-conference workshop.

Yes, that's a workshop meeting

I was general co-chair of IEEE CIS-RAM 2013. Here's where we had our post-conference workshop.

IEEE CIS-RAM family

CIS-RAM 2010 conference organizers' outing at Krabi, Thailand

Post-workshop photo

IEEE IROS 2014 at Chicago.

Conference banquet

A grand banquet dinner at the IEEE CIS-RAM conference at Qingdao, China (with Professors Tong Heng Lee and Marcelo Ang).

Farewell lunch for me

My colleagues at NUS.

Research discussions

Reunion at BioRob 2012, Rome.

Duty calls

Students' commencement exercises at NUS

He's the (real) one

The real Prof Ishiguro (on my right). He left his doppelgänger somewhere else. Got stuck at immigration perhaps?

"My daddy is on TV!"

Photo of my TV appearance when the Stars of Science program was shown in the Pan-Arabian region.

TV-radio science news program

Launch of the promo video (NUS-ECE)

This was the official launch of the NUS_ECE outreach video. That's me on the screen :)

1st Year Engineering Experience

Human team-robot team collaboration

Learning is fun

My 1st year computer engineering students learning introductory circuits and programming at NUS.

Human touch or not?

Dexter robot at the ARTS Lab

Leo's first conference attendance